Music technology, resources, etc…
Sites for the tools of the trade

“Established” software/hardware developers and manufacturers

Ableton /Access / Alesis / Korg / Moog / Native Instruments / Novation / Ohm Force / Paia / Propellerhead / Roland / Sony / Steinberg / Yamaha /

free patch libraries/vst instruments/effects, DIY equiptment, sources and resources and other strange finds

Create Digital Music - Blog of music tools and various other music-related strangeness

Database Audio - “freeware resources for the electronic musician” very impressive collection of free online/vst/stand-alone software.

Find Sounds - handy dandy way of searching the web for, say, the sound of a flyswatter (this too has its uses)

Hitsquad - hmm, just a good resource for musicians all around.

Hollow Sun - site that “preserves” old classic electronic instruments.

Music Thing - blog of synth oddities, instruments long forgotten and just general strangeness.

Patch Arena - huge collection of patches for many, many software programs (effects, synths) as well as hardware toys.

Reasonfreaks - a user created resource for all things related to propellerheads’ “reason” software

Shifty Death Synth - D.I.Y. effects box.

Synthtopia - Another music tech news site

Tweakbench - 13 free vsti’s, 8 free vst effects, some of the best plugins I have found.

Online musical toys (this is the fun section)

BPoeM - Pattern sequencer

Kompact Kittens - “A tribute to minimal techno”

Pâte à Son - French Oddity

Repercussion - Impressive (but not always musical) 3d sound enviroment

Soft - Flash based noise machine

The Mixulator - Umm, scary scary

–New links added as soon as i can remember ‘em or as soon as you remind me. Dont see a link that you think should be here? let me know